Re: Another reason to avoid host tables.

<snip>
Or, just maybe IBM is simply changing the network infrastructure and set
up?
</snip>
Jim,

Nope. Not "JUST" changing their network infrastructure and setup. Yes they
are making those changes, but they clearly state in their documentation,
and that's where I cut that line from the OP, that they are doing a little
randomizing.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Or, just maybe IBM is simply changing the network infrastructure and set
up? They’ve been doing this for some time and have not been quiet about
it.

Host tables used properly have their place. Try booting AIX without host
table entries or a really good DNS connection, and if the DNS is on that
partition, yea….


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Aug 1, 2024, at 11:25 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 11:16 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I hope responsible people will not fall prey to this baseless course of

action by blindly following the "but IBM also does it" mantra. This is
almost the same idiocy like "enforcing periodic password changes enhances
security".

It's *exactly* the same thinking as periodic password changes.

In either case, I don't think it has all that much to do with
following IBM's lead. The accepted "best practice" can come from
various sources, and I'll bet IBM does it because they are following
someone else's lead.

John Y.
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